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It is pitiful and embarrasing that our presidential candidates feel they must publicly flog their Christianity in order to get the votes of people who punterjoe accurately described as immune to reason in his excellent post in this thread. These "christians" will not vote for Obama under any circumstance. Obama's no dummy and probably knows this, so his appearance at Saddleback is really more about showing his supporters and the undecided that he is at least open minded and not writing off those who plainly will not vote for him- politically a good move.
As for the candidate's respective versions of Christianity I much prefer Obama's, which seems to me to be of a far more tolerant- dare I say it Jesus-like- version than the angry and hateful neo-con fundamentalist god McCain has so publicly embraced to pander to the republican base.
